The deuteronomic portrayal of Balaam

Vetus Testamentum

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-42

  Frankel, David ^a  

^a NONE   (Israel)

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EID: 84945649577     PISSN: 00424935     EISSN: 15685330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568533962581170     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Cf. G.W. Coats, "Balaam: Sinner or Saint", Biblical Research 18 (1973), pp. 21-9;
2. A. Rofe, The Book of Balaam. A Study in Methods of Criticism and the History of Biblical Literature and Religion (Hebrew) (Jerusalem, 1979);
3. J. Milgrom, Numbers (Philadelphia and New York, 1990), pp. 469-71.
4. Cf. the commentaries on Deuteronomy and M. Weinfeld, "Curse", Encyclopaedia Biblica (Hebrew) 7 (Jerusalem, 1966), cols 186-7;
5. H. Donner, "Balaam Pseudopropheta", in Beitrdge zur Alttestamentlichen Theologie-Festschrift fur W. Zimmerli (Gottingen, 1977), pp. 120-1;
6. L. Schmidt, "Die alttestamentliche Bileamueberlieferung", Biblische Zeitschrift 23 (1979), p. 258
7. M. Noth, Uberlieferungsgeschichte des Pentateuch (Stuttgart, 1948), p. 85
8. A History of Pentateuchal Traditions (Englewood Cliffs, 1972), p. 78.
9. M.D. Cassuto, "Blessings", Encyclopaedia Biblica (Hebrew) 2 Qerusalem, 1954), col. 357.
10. On the neutralization of the curse cf. Weinfeld (n. 2), cols. 186-7.
11. R. Hammer, Sifre on Deuteronomy [New Haven, Conn., and London, 1986], pp. 253-4
12. We thus reject the position of T. Butler in Joshua (Waco, 1983), p. 264
13. S. Holmes in Joshua, The Hebrew and Greek Texts (Cambridge, 1914), p. 79
14. J. Van Seters, "Confessional reformulation in the exilic period", VT 22 (1972), pp. 448-59;
15. H.L. Ginsberg, The Israelian Heritage of Judaism (New York, 1982), pp. 100-16.
16. Cf. Donner (n.2), pp. 120-1;
17. Schmidt (n. 2), pp. 258-9;
18. Rofe (n. 1), pp. 46-8.
19. For Deuteronomy's nationalistic background see M. Weinfeld, Deuteronomy 1-11 (New York, 1991), pp. 50-5.
20. Y. Zakovitch, "Review of A. Rofe, The Book of Balaam", Kiryat Sefer 54 (1979), p. 789.
21. Cf. Rofe, (n. 1), pp. 26-30
22. S. Mowinckel, "Der Ursprung der Bileamsage", ZAW 48 (1930), pp. 233-71
23. A.B. Ehrlich, Mikrd Ki-phesshuto 1 (Berlin, 1949), p. 290.
24. Cf., e.g., C. Steuernagel, Das Deuteronomium (Gottingen, 1923), p. 136.